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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teet...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Only after disaster can we be ressurected.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumpti...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sud...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Maybe we should always assume the worst.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive....
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. An...
CHUCK TANNER
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth...
CHUCK SIGARS
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
CHUCK SIGARS
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK